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Finally Got my Leg over

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:42 pm
by Pete.L
Whilst you guys & girls were out having a jolly I took myself off to the local bike shop to console myself. There I am , sat happy as a pig in sh!t, bouncing up and down on a brand new SP2 (fastest way I know to get the sales guy over).
Desperatley dejected and all alone I'm sat on this puppy thinking this girl is mine and as soon as it's broken in I gunna screw you something wicked :twisted: Just as I'd antisipated a worried little salesman came scurring over and asks if I need any help. Sure, I said. I've got a V reg firestorm in good nick and I'm looking to up grade. With that the guy shakes his head and says "Oh were not taking in any trade in's" and walks off 8O 8O 8O
Whats that all about???
No talk about selling the bike privately or taking up a lone to make up the difference he just buggered off!
I was so shocked I walked out.
So my question is How do you buy a Bike???

8O 8O 8O

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:45 pm
by Max
Was that at Fowlers ?

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:48 pm
by Pete.L
Good Guess

Fowlers Of Bristol
Richard of the universe

How did you know that Max?

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:51 pm
by Max
I'm originally from Radstock and used to miss spend some of my youth drooling over RG250's and such in Fowlers many many years ago.

things dont change much

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:52 pm
by Seeker 77
Don't go to a small shop. Go to a Honda main dealer likle i did. They gave me 2400 for my storm (not bad for a 99 with 14000) and i paid an extra 2000 for my sp-1. They didn't even ride mine, just looked at it and paid up!!

Good luck!

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:53 pm
by Max
mellis wrote:Don't go to a small shop. Go to a Honda main dealer likle i did. They gave me 2400 for my storm (not bad for a 99 with 14000) and i paid an extra 2000 for my sp-1. They didn't even ride mine, just looked at it and paid up!!

Good luck!

Fowlers are enormous, but have a bit of an attitude problem :?

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:01 pm
by Pete.L
A bit of an attitude problem is an understatement!!!
Oh well, baldrocks to them I say. I'll spend my money elsewhere.

So Mellis
Hows the new girl? Is she satisfying you?
Give us the gos

Pete.l

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:12 am
by Seeker 77
Pete.L wrote:So Mellis
Hows the new girl? Is she satisfying you?
Give us the gos

Pete.l
I'm scared, i mean properly scared. I rode it back from High Wycombe in rush hour 8O . You very quickly realise just how strange the steering is. The front end wobbles a lot when you are not used to it. The suspension is rock hard and the seat might as well be made of wood. Of course none of that makes the slightest difference to me. The power is a lot like the firestorm up to about 5 grand then it goes mental. You actually have to recalibrate your brain when you ride it.

The fuel consumption is crap but i'm used to that :wink: When you go for a thrash you feel like a god. The thing is just so damn fast. It corners fast and you find yourself going into corners a lot faster than even something as well handling as my Gixxer 600.

I love it, i love it, i love it!






But my butt doesn't................. or my wrists................ or my wallet.

Aww to hell with it, its awesome and i feel fulfilled now. Got some goodies coming as well, PC3, undertray and lights and indicators. Will post a piccie when it is done!

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:58 am
by Pete.L
Kaz
Exactly the same idea as what was going through my mind :twisted:

Mellis
Glad to hear it mate :wink: it gives me something to look forward to. (Mrs says my brain needs more than recalibrating though :? )

Pete.l

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:36 am
by RAINMAKER
Okay sso we are all going to be getting SP1 or SP2. :twisted: ...........just what I had in mind for a second bike. :lol: .........now to get on right side of the wife. :cry: ...............hmmmm not easy.

Credit card company has upped my limit in to enough to get three new SP2. :lol: .........just too chicken to do it and go home and tell the wife what I done :roll: . so maybe next year. :lol:

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:21 am
by Zer0Zer0
8O Do it rainy you know you want too ... stick one on yer plastic. i would...
you must have a m8 with a garage? if youve' got enough on yer card for 3 sps.... buy a fkin garage! and why does the Mrs have to know? ill bet shes' got a few secrets too.. get in there my son, ! there is a beautiful Sp2 here at one of our local showrooms,,at a shade over 6 grand...im just waiting for my credit card to be returned to me.[fkin english banks] and for the limit to go up another 2k then im' in :twisted: :twisted:

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:24 pm
by kevg
you still not got your card back marty, lol, the police will be knocking on your door next asking why you stole it.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:26 pm
by Pete.L
Zero said
get in there my son, ! there is a beautiful Sp2 here at one of our local showrooms,,at a shade over 6 grand...
Is that new??? Seams a little cheep to me.
I'd beg borrow or steal a creditcard if thats a new one mate :wink:
Pete.l

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:10 pm
by RAINMAKER
Zero..........you ain't seen my wife.........boy would she be mad if I blew another 10 K............

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:11 pm
by Zer0Zer0
Kev m8 just got the bugger back in the post. one more payment then the limit expands enough ! to get my fiddler spanners on that Sp2..Pete its a one owner never ridden [hardly] black and white .Barely guided missile.X plate
dont know the mileage but it looks like the last owner rode it home and hermetically sealed it, in a glass case! Im' not contemplating ditching the storm.. I want both 8O Rainy my man..blow another ten k??, Money well spent id' say , :wink: slip an E into her next bedtime cuppa and take her to the Moon, shell' think youre' a God and let you Blow what you like!! 8O Mind and take one yourself we dont want to cream on her thigh on the way in!!!